Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-05-27

say they area never had any eye for colors,
you know"
We enter the front door, and the lady
Mrs Pierson find her name to be-greets us
smilingly.
"You have come to look at it together"
she says "That is much wiser. One can
always see what the other overlooks."
"Yes," say II liked it so much that
wanted my husband to see it too" But what
further would say is checked by the fact
that Jack has turned into the open door of
the parlor and calls to me.
"Is it not pretty room, Jack!" ask "A
bay window and two others, just as told
you And the register is in the floor at this
cornern
''And a CRATE, in case the furnace should
not be enough" says Jack, looking about
him.
''Thev have never been obliged to use it,"
say, eagerly.
'But it ventilates the room, all the same"
says Jack "The dining room is back, sup
pose. Yes, fine light room, just such as
like
'.The kitchen is back of it,n 1 say, ''separ-
ated by short passage
"That settles the question Of the dumb
waiter, about which you were anxious, l sup
pose" says Jack.
"That was in your house,.s say. "The
kitchen was down stairs in tnat, you know"
"Oh-ah, yes, I said so, I believe" says
Jack. II may have been mistaken though.
Well, little woman, as we both like the house,
I think the best thing we can do is to take it. !"
ooh, but we haven't seen your house yet,
Jack" I cry, sand am sure it isever so much
nicer. The vegetable garden, you know, and
the pear trees and ALL"
@Your wife did not see the vegetable gar
den when she was here BEFORE" says Mrs.
Pierson. "She was satisfied with the flower
beds
aOb, is there a vegetable garden, too9" I
cry. HThen-- But never mind; we are
not likely to take the house, so--a
But Jack, whose eyes have been twsnkllng
in peculiar way for some time, now surprises,
me-by going off into roar. Mrs. Pierson
laughs, too, as if she has caught the joke; but
am simply dazed, and can only look from.
one to the other inquiringly.
II can't can't keep it up any longer"
says Jack at last "Ethel, my dear, it was
not a; deliberate SELL How it happened
can't tell yet; but this is my house-brown
paint, open CRATES, and all. Ny dear child,
it is too delightful Our first quarrel nipped
in the bud, our minds moving instinctively in
the same channel and all that Let me see
your list"
[ hand him the list, and running his eye
down it, he says: "Ah, yes, see. THE
Dgilby house'-the same name which is on
my list. They have given the house to two
agents Under the circumstances they ought
to toss up for the commission. Well, Ethel,
Isuppose the best thing we can do is to take
both houses, and be sure of being suited.
Really it is the best joke I ever heard Of"
And he goes off into another fit of up
roarious laughter, in which, after moments
hesitation, l join.
"When did you find it out firstsn ask at
last.
HNot certainly until I saw Mrs. Persons
face" says Jack, regaining his gravity with
an effort. ave approached it by a different
way, which threw me off the track. 1
thought the house looked familiar as we
drove up to it, but I have seen so many to-
day that could not be quite sure"
II thought your house was so near the
station" I hazard. And Jack replies:
$50 it is. Your driver took you by a
roundabout way, and besides there is short
cut for foot passengers. The best of all this
is, you know. that it Inspires us with such
absolute confidence in each others judgment.
Hereafter shall conf1de my affairs to your
hands with infinite certainty, Ethel, and you,
of course, will do the same by me-"
Except in the matter of matching colors,"
1 say, laughing. II should hardly like you
to select the trimming of a brown dress for
me, for instance"
"Well," says Jack, if you trust me in all
the rest, think I can safely leave you to
select your own gowns. I'll Il. Holdich in
Harper's Bazaar.